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| Green Lantern versus Aliens | |
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 Cover toGreen Lantern Versus Aliens #1, byDwayne Turner. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics /Dark Horse Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Limited series |
| Publication date | September2000 - December 2000 |
| No. of issues | 4 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Ron Marz |
| Penciller | Rick Leonardi |
| Inker | Mike Perkins |
| Collected editions | |
| Green Lantern Versus Aliens | ISBN 1-56971-538-6 |
Green Lantern versus Aliens is a four-issuecomic bookintercompany crossovermini-series published jointly byDC Comics andDark Horse Comics monthly from September to December 2000. It is written byRon Marz and illustrated by pencillerRick Leonardi and inkerMike Perkins, with covers byDwayne Turner. In2001, the series was collected into a single volume with a new cover by artistEric Kohler. The series stars severalGreen Lanterns, primarilyKyle Rayner, and the titularXenomorphs from theAlien films. The story is apparently outside ofDC Comics Universe canon, as Brik andSalaak are alive in current Green Lantern continuity; the series is set sometime after the destruction of the original Green Lantern Corps.[1]
The story opens in flashback, ten years before the (at the time) current continuity of theGreen Lantern comic books, showing an extraterrestrial Barin Char, the Green Lantern of Sector 1522, dying when achestburster bursts from his chest.Hal Jordan (who, at the time of the series' publication, had long been dead) is then summoned by theGuardians of the Universe to rendezvous with fellow Green LanternsKilowog,Katma Tui,Tomar-Re,Green Man, andSalaak on the planet Tirama in Sector 1522. The six Green Lanterns are informed of the disappearance of Barin Char and proceed to the border world where he is believed to have disappeared. Tracing the signal from Char's displaced power ring, they enter a cavern inside a mountainous butte where they discover Char's corpse before being attacked by a swarm of Xenomorphs. Jordan decides that rather than exterminate an alien species—particularly since the Xenomorphs appear to be only the interstellar equivalent ofsharks, the perfect killing machine without actually being evil—they would transport the Xenomorphs to the sentient Green Lantern planetMogo, where they can not harm anyone.
A decade later, theSignet Dawn, aColuan long-rangeore transport vessel, crashes onto the planet. Five extraterrestrials—theXudarian Tomar-Dar, Brik, Ash, M'Hdahna and Salaak—appear on Earth in the apartment of Kyle Rayner, who at the time, is the Green Lantern ofEarth and the only Green Lantern in existence. These five are either former Green Lanterns or were intended to become Green Lanterns at the time ofParallax's destruction of the Green Lantern Corps, and they inform Kyle of theSignet Dawn's crash on Mogo. The six then journey to Mogo to rescue the ship's crew. Inside the hull of the ship, they encounter Crowe, the ship's first officer, who tells Kyle that after the crash, the aliens carried off the other 37 crew members but left her for some reason. Crowe leads Kyle and the others deeper into the ship, where the Xenomorphs attack them, taking Kyle's companions captive, leaving only him, Crowe, and Salaak. When Kyle tries to grab Tomar as he is pulled down a shaft, his power ring slips off his finger and falls down the shaft.
The trio then climbs down the shaft—Kyle and Salaak subsequently settling any remaining tension between them when Salaak apologizes for judging Kyle by what he was not rather than what he was—and discover five of Crowe's crewmates cocooned by the Xenomorphs, four of whom have been killed by chestbursters. The Xenomorphs then attack the trio, and Crowe and Kyle flee through a passageway, separated from Salaak. They then come across a chamber where they discover a Xenomorph queen with the remainder of Crowe's crew and Kyle's companions cocooned around the walls and Kyle's power ring on the floor. After exchanging a brief kiss for luck, Crowe jumps into the chamber firing at the aliens to distract them while Kyle goes for his ring. During this attempt, the skin on the right half of Crowe's face is ripped away, revealing that she is agynoid. Kyle reacquires his ring. Crowe, fatally damaged during the melee, tells Kyle that he should not leave the Xenomorphs alive to endanger someone else in the future as Jordan did, so Kyle destroys the Xenomorphs, rescuing the survivingSignet Dawn crew and his companions. Ash, Brik and Salaak do not survive. Kyle is left with the thought that sometimes the past comes back to haunt no matter what one does, another reminder of the legacy of Hal Jordan that looms over him.
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